Early Childhood (and K-12)
Professional Development
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The Down To Earth Dad® professional-development trainings — whether on father engagement, staff stress reduction and mental health in support of work-life balance, or integrating family storytelling into your services/initiatives/campaigns — are for early childhood and K-12 schools, organizations, and programs across America’s school districts, American Indian tribes, and educational service areas.
Always entertaining and interactive, these professional-development events contain immediately-useful information your team can use to optimize children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development.
Chances are VERY good your team will say afterward this was the most FUN (and interactive) training they ever attended!
These professional-development trainings — in summer and during the school year, or as breakout sessions at conferences — have a lasting, positive impact on new and experienced staff, and they help bring about lasting, positive outcomes for the children and families connected to the programs and schools hosting these high-quality trainings.
Local programs host these trainings in their gym, lunchroom, conference room, auditorium, or other local meeting space/venue such as a church or event center.
FATHER / MALE ENGAGEMENT TRAINING:
- Learn *exactly* how to talk to men so they’ll listen.
- Learn how to listen to men so they’ll talk (click link at left).
- Celebrate maternal and paternal parenting styles
- Learn tried, tested, and perfected techniques to get (and keep) men optimally engaged.
- Be motivated and entertained by the trainer, by cool audio-visuals, and by each other!
- Learn how to motivate your dads’ employers to support father engagement by letting your men attend your family events.
- Share individual and small-group visions for enhanced father engagement, and set goals for positive outcomes all year long.
- Bond closer as a team.
- Have fun!
Do you have Home Visitors on your team? They’ll benefit HUGELY from this training because home visits (and intake/screenings) are perfect times to “raise the bar” for fathers and show how your program values engaged dads for so many reasons.
STORYTELLING FOR EDUCATORS:
Instead of relying solely on manufactured stories for early-literacy enhancement, early childhood educators (and K-12 teachers) can weave in their own personal narratives to boost literacy — and share individual, family, and community history/heritage/ culture along the way!
Patrick will show your ECE team *exactly* how to leverage the power of personal storytelling to enliven educator/parent interactions around literacy and to bolster cognitive, social, and emotional development—and school readiness—in the process.
Book a Storytelling for ECE: Strengthening Child Resilience with Educator Narratives in Classrooms and on Home Visits keynote or professional development interactive event to turbo-charge parent engagement, strengthen families, enhance child literacy, teach resilience, facilitate social connections, boost social-emotional competence, and reduce child stress. True story!
(You can also Host a Family Storytelling Night® for your parents and families the prior evening if your calendar allows.)
STAFF STRESS-REDUCTION TRAINING:
The Office of Head Start (OHS) published a
memorandum supporting staff wellness, well-being, and mental health for
all staff in the Head Start workforce.
Staff wellness & well-being is VITAL to child well-being, so it’s CRUCIAL to optimize your team’s interactions with children and families by reducing their stress.
engagement staff training with stress-reduction elements, or let the
stress-reduction training stand on its own.
The Stress Reduction event is an interactive and entertaining
journey exploring seven threads, or topics, rolled out consecutively and
interlocking and with small-and-all-group activities along the way.
Comical and meaningful Audio-visuals. Participatory by nature, but
some people may choose not to participate openly, and that’s okay.
- Acknowledging Stressors Across Job Titles and Away from Work.
- Eliminating—PERMANENTLY—all the Stressors You Can.
- Harnessing Remaining Stressors to Your ADVANTAGE!
- Learning Strategies for COPING with Stressors.
- Stress Reduction in Other Cultures.
- Supporting Each Other.
- Story Sharing as a Tool to Reduce Staff Stress and as a Research-Based Method of Ameliorating Youth Stress.
Lastly: Colorful Vision Boards, a small-group or individual make-and-take project to celebrate newfound insights!
NOTE: There are many topics available for your Staff PD Training with Patrick Mitchell. Let’s customize what works best for your team.
See some of Patrick’s recent and upcoming events.
Customarily, these are IN-PERSON trainings (I come to you). However, some programs prefer virtual trainings. Do you need a VIRTUAL TRAINING instead? Let’s plan it!
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